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Professional and Personal Development
First-Generation College Student to University Professor: Strategies for Success
The knowledge needed to succeed in various spaces is never naturally apparent nor based on common sense; it is learned. Dr. Mitchell has remained aware of this reality throughout her journey from first-generation college student to university professor, and this lecture grows out of a desire to empower audiences to use this truth to their advantage. Because the various cultural assumptions that support success must be learned, Dr. Mitchell has found that the best resources are specific attitudes and approaches that anyone can adopt. If one has the right approach, formulating situation specific strategies becomes a practice on which one can always depend. This lecture uses Dr. Mitchell’s own story to illuminate the approaches, including her “composite mentor” approach, that have served her well. BOOK THIS LECTURE »
Pay Yourself First & Pay it Forward: Fit & Fighting for Social Justice
For anyone who wants to see the United States live up to its claims of “liberty and justice for all,” the consistency with which inequity and injustice win the day can be downright depressing. Facing these realities, how do you avoid utter despair? How do you keep from giving up by assuming that the country will never make good on its promises? As important, how do you resist the temptation to become completely disconnected? Dr. Mitchell believes that exercise must become an important part of the answer! When those who are encouraged to prioritize everything but their own wellbeing begin to put their health first, the results can be amazing. They realize that making themselves a priority allows them to give others more of what really matters—good energy, optimism, power. The nation will not magically become any less racist, sexist, heterosexist, and classist or any less brutal toward people who are differently abled or whose gender expression resists rigidity. Realizing that, Dr. Mitchell believes that Audre Lorde said it best: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” BOOK THIS LECTURE »